Less than one-third (32.4%) of the 3,887 felons currently in the Department’s custody with a mandatory minimum sentence under the 10-20-Life legislation received the longest mandatory term for the crime of felon possessing a gun.

Only 10 other inmates committed another kind of offense besides a weapons crime that accounts for a crime of felony possession of a gun.

Robbery accounts for the longest 10-20-Life mandatory sentence for 49.1% of the 2,626 felons who used a gun in a crime.

Other violent crime (aggravated assault, aggravated battery, carjacking, etc.) accounts for the longest mandatory sentence for 14.9% of felons who used a gun in a crime; murder or manslaughter for about 22.6%; and burglary for 10.8%.

Sexual or lewd behavior and drug crimes account for very few (21) of the longest mandatory terms imposed under 10-20-Life .